Hi Shaul Karl,
it's a long time ago that i read network things to get my modem working,
what i understand about it, i write to you
i am nowhere near an expert on this
i think that hosts on other networks can get netmask of this network
number of zeros at end of netmask tells them how big network is,
they assume each network has a network address (ending in all zeros)
and a broadcast address (ending in all ones)
i dont know how hosts on other network get at this netmask,
(read libc docs to see if they have a syscall for that)
i just checked these : you can get 'network part' of an address,
which tells you size of network, so hosts on other networks can indeed
find out netmask.
> My question is how does the 2 smaller networks know that 192.168.1.191
> and 192 were initially a broadcast and network addresses?
they look at netmask, and if that is all they know about that network,
then they assume that it has network- and broadcast-adresses
> Would they treat any one of 192.168.*.19[12] in the same way?
only if its netmask was same
> Is this a software (kernel?) issue
> or does it inherent to the Ethernetprotocol?
neither, this is part of Internet Protocol i think, and IPv6 is yet different
i hope i didnt mislead you more than i helped you,
Siward
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you realize that
external modems are cheaper than winmodems
when you take into account that
second hand value of a linux-capable modem is much higher